Von Ribbentrop, Joachim, 1893-1946

A large chart showing Nazi "Chain of Command" (in the background at left) was displayed during the afternoon of the third day of the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials in Germany. At the same session, Major Frank B. Wallis (standing at desk near center), a member of trial counsel and trial preparation legal staff, presents further items of the prosecution's case. Defendants Hermann Goering (first in box at left), Rudolph Hess, and Joachim von Ribbentrop are visible in the defendants' box.

Joachim von Ribbentrop (second from right in front row of prisoner's dock, facing forward) confers with his attorney during a 15-minute break in the War Crimes Trials proceedings in Nuremberg, Germany. Others, left to right (front row of dock) are: Hermann Goering, Rudolph Hess, Wilhelm Keitel, Wilhelm Frick, and Julius Streicher; and (rear row) Erich Raeder, Baldur von Schirach, Fritz Sauckel, and Alfred Rosenberg.